ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -While living with Dorothy at Alfoxden House, Wordsworth became friends with a fellow poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. They formed a partnership that would change both poets’ lives and alter the course of English poetry.

Detailed explanation-2: -Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth In a chance meeting that would change the course of poetic history, Samuel Taylor Coleridge made the acquaintance of William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy, in Somerset in 1795. The two became immediate friends.

Detailed explanation-3: -Wordsworth and Coleridge’s friendship was a steady constant during both men’s lives.

Detailed explanation-4: -William Wordsworth was brother to Dorothy, who adored Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who was married to Sara, who was the sister-in-law of the future poet laureate Robert Southey. Together with a second Sara, with whom Coleridge was besotted, the Wordsworths established a fluid commune in the Lake District.

Detailed explanation-5: -In fact Wordsworth was interested in the changes of relationship with nature in the different moments of life. For Wordsworth childhood is the most important (in a poem he says “the Child is father to the Man") age in man’s life because of imagination and memory that are more vivid than in the adults.